Egypt Split in More Ways Than One

7/12/2013 7:39AM

Matt Bradley reports from Cairo on the misgivings some secular Egyptians have about the military coup that toppled former President Mohammed Morsi and the damage it has inflicted on the country’s fledgling democratic process.

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I ... the the ... last week's music to ... Egypt this ... country ... in more ways than one ... must go these joining us from Cairo Matt it's ... as simple as just be cruel Muslim Brotherhood or anti Muslim Brotherhood is that ... no need for the most are really am sucha Greece where we deny the rubble of the latest wear which is where all the pro Morsi people are hanging out and been protesting for the last week ... it does seem ... at first glance the ball on news ... that all along that spectrum we have secularism to clear ... up after being as the president ... and Islam is supporting the president ... that he will even as my ... colleague can read it again in today's story and Wall Street Journal ... you talk to people who really do believe ... that they are not defending Morsi himself the ousted president ... of the defending the office of the presidency in the integrity of the era of the sort of German all Egyptian democracy ... and that's important because ... this isn't just about loyalty to him to a person and it isn't just about ... feelings of out of Islamism or or or horse for Islam this nation or Hoekstra secularization ... it's also about of the population some of whom feel that they should just due to the president was elected last year ... was it that that supporting ... the holder to Ephesus ... an attorney or something to keep carrying out with ten am on Sunday in a memo on the way an ace and Sunday were saying look ... the price fall and use the French president that ... he has another twenty percent approval rating ... and even some of them and the French are demanding that he be removed from office are not going out to St ... talk to people in Congress with a stand up ... yes ... you didn't like George Bush in America he left office with something like a twenty percent approval rating he didn't have an ousted before ... the end of his ... two terms ... but America and France in these other countries they have functioning democratic system where you can trust in the results of elections where you can own weeks we have patiently to defend the integrity of an office has been ... around for more than two years ... and so the difference is important ... in terms of what people are defending and what they're closing it's not simply just rising to the defense of the Islamic law were rising to the defense of secularism ... it's really did the debate here and doesn't become more granular when you talk about the integrity of the new democratic system ... this business if the results of the next one ... well we seen some surveys come out and said that a majority of the Egyptian public doesn't actually support the ouster of Morsi ... that's hard to really ... don't really know who I am pulling in this country but we have to remember that a year ago ... Mohammed Morsi Wall the president see in this country by a narrow margin but he still wanted ... and then over the two-and-a-half years since the present Mohamad a hazardous Mubarak was ousted from power in street demonstrations there is similar to ones that ousted Morsi last week ... that the Islamists and ... the Muslim Brotherhood dominated every single vote ... so if there's a way in which we can measure the Egyptian public and what they want ... the Egyptian public has already gone wholeheartedly with the Islamists model proposed by Mr Morsi ... so it's very difficult right now know exactly how this is all the way out ... of the military ... the new government the secularists most of secularists who backed Mr Morsi's ouster ... they have also that they were sending ... thirty million people and streets on Sunday demanding that Mr Morris to step down ... now that's true ... then that would be a really strong indication of the ... public wants to move but kept the first time ... that they voted with their feet ... against ... Islam is candidate or an Islamist thinking it ... just briefly have styling that on today's Friday on the idea off of that ... this sizable demonstrations on the stove and that is ... making their presence felt in the streets ... yes you know we've had in violence over the last week it due to release of the two people were killed in front of the Republican Guard club in ... the car Osama Nasr City ... with most to me is I'm as protesters ... so what we're seeing tonight and of course it's Ramadan right now so there's not a lot of that business is not a lot of things going on during the data once nine times ... after this city really ... comes alive and as protests are planned for later tonight but by